Overwhelming Number of Americans Want Government Intervention

[Hannah Bell]

Today, the Center for Community Change and the Ms. Foundation for Women released new polling data that illustrates the mounting economic concerns of Americans nationwide. The poll highlights the direness of the current economic situation as well as the growing sentiment that America has become a dog-eat-dog, “everyone for themselves” society that can only be repaired by government intervention.

Sixty-eight percent of those polled reported that the recession has affected their own family, while four out of five say that they are very or somewhat concerned about the economy.

These numbers are higher in African American women, Latinas, and young people, who have been hit hardest by the economic woes and worry disproportionally about rising health care costs, lack of jobs with a sustainable wage, and earning enough to sustain their everyday expenses.

A staggering twenty-five percent of men and thirty-five percent of women report that they have five hundred dollars or less in their savings. If we continue down our current path of job loss, this number will only grow, and with Congress slashing unemployment insurance, our economy has no chance of recovering.

http://www.communitychange.org/blog/overwhelming-numbers-of-americans-want-government/view

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[Donnachaidh]

3. Stop the subsidies to millionaires, lobbyists and their corporations

And start helping the working class.

I'd have far more faith in my government if they developed commissions to search out all the giveaways to corporations and the wealthy, rather than setting up commissions to take away the very limited money used to help seniors and disabled folks.

[Raster]

5. Unfortunately the corporations and their lobbyists control the Congressional agenda.

If it's a choice between Senator BlahBlah loosing his corporate sugar daddy and your Grandma loosing her Social Security, it's gonna suck to be Grandma.

A government of the people, for the people and by the people has been mostly myth for many years.

[Enthusiast]

4. We need more stimulus.

There is no consumer demand. There will be no private sector job creation until there is greater demand for products. The economy must be jump started.

The Republican solution of tax cuts for the wealthy and lower government spending will not stimulate the economy, no matter how many times they say it.

[Jenny_92808]

6. Stop the repub's goal of ...

making the super rich into super duper rich at the expense of the working class and retirees.

[txlibdem]

7. 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck

Yet businesses are sitting on nearly Two Trillion Dollars in cash. Record profits for big business! If the businesses wanted to stimulate the economy they could. It's clear that they do not want to help the economy.

They are hoping for a Rethug victory in November is my guess. Then they can say "see, when Republicons are in power we make lots of jobs" even though it is easily disproven, a lie.

Think about how many jobs you could create with 2,000,000,000,000 dollars ($2 Trillion). Even with all the taxes that a business would have to pay per employee (they pay the same amount you do except for income tax - you pay for all that). Let's assume that each worker costs a business double their salary, that seems about right, so a $20,000 worker costs $40,000 a year when you include facilities, insurance, taxes, etc.

Using those figures we find that they could create 20 million jobs that make $50,000 a year! 20 million jobs!

We know that 8 million jobs were lost in this recession/depression. If we just plan to put all those people back to work each of those 8 million people could make $125,000 a year.

(ps, why don't you get out your tax return and compare the number you got after working your tail off and constantly worrying about your next paycheck)

You darn right we need the government to do more to stimulate our economy and create jobs. As I showed above businesses could erase this recession by hiring between 8 million and 20 million workers right now but they aren't doing a thing. The banks don't want to loan any money (even though we gave it all to them).

We need a second WPA (Works Progress Administration) to put people to work and stimulate the economy. I encourage everyone to contact the white house and push for WPA. www.whitehouse.gov/contact

The WPA was a program during the great depression where the government directly hired millions of people across the country. They built roads and bridges, the national parks, dams like the great Hoover Dam and a whole lot of other infrastructure projects. This solves two problems for America. Right now our infrastructure is crumbling, bridges are falling down while so many people are out of work, not able to contribute to the tax base so we can fix those problems. It's a chicken or egg situation. The government needs to put people to work, they will spend their paychecks at the grocery store, movie theater, drug store, and buy shoes, clothing, tools, electronics, cars, etc. The entire economy will be pulled up by these jobs.